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Moonglum Clampflower (MornC), Muse of Ego, Keeper of the Lamp and Guru, (aka Happinose) Posted Oct 4, 2001
Aahh yes!! but can you code in Logo??
Very suprised to see that BBC Basic is still going. All those VDU commands! What model of beeb are you using?
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Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Oct 4, 2001
Hi Pete, youre in
Please read post 120 of this conversation.
Dancer
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Zoing, an italian geek Posted Oct 4, 2001
Language: Java, C++, VBA
Database: data modeling, Oracle
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Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Oct 4, 2001
Added 
Welcome, I'm going off to bed 
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Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat Posted Oct 5, 2001
I didn't use a Beeb, I used an A3000, which turned out to be almost the 32-bit (or, strictly, 26-bit) equivalent in schools. My dad bought one because there weren't any IBM clones available. (What are the chances of that happening these days?)
I was learning how to use SYS commands to create a GUI for the program - I could never get it to work, even with the tutorial "Wimp Programming for All". RISC OS's window manager is referred to as the Wimp, and its system call names start with "Wimp_", eg. "Wimp_Initialise". To create a GUI from scratch you have to fiddle about with SYS commands which are basically software interrupts. It's very fiddly - you have to set up "parameter blocks" which are big spaces of memory on the heap, probably at least 256 bytes long, and you pass these parameters by indirection. There are a lot of surprising kluges in BBC BASIC V and VI to allow Wimp programming, and it's actually easier to learn it using C (not that I ever had a compiler).
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Oct 7, 2001
It's all right, Sinclair - GuideML doesn't work in threads anyway! 
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lw - ck Posted Oct 7, 2001
Nooooooooooooo, Hi Rajiv 
. Dancer will come along and sort you out. If your in the seventh grade how old are you? We may have a new youngest member!
Ck
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Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Oct 7, 2001
Hi there Rajiv.
If you look at the corners' page you can see every programmer wrote something about their knowledge.
We can do one of 3 things:
1. You ish to leave your introduction as it is in the thread above (that'll make it kind of different, but different isn't such a bad thing
2. You can write something closer to the "standart" format
3. I can write something closer to the "standart" format using what I learned about you from your post.
So what say you, do you choose door number 1, door 2 or the all too easy door nubmer 3?
Dancer (
but coping)
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some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one Posted Oct 9, 2001
I just realised I forgot to mention SQL and PL/SQL as languages I know.
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Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Oct 9, 2001
Well, it is too late, you've been here too long, so I can't change it!
Naa, just kidding, I'll add it right awat
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Potholer Posted Oct 10, 2001
Name : Potholer
Languages :
Main : C, C++, x86 Assembler, Postscript
Learning : HTML, PIC assembler (since 09/01)
Expired : Basic, 6502/6809 assembler, Pascal, Forth, (Prolog?)
Platfroms : PC (DOS/Win9x/WinNT), BBC Micro, VAX(VMS)
Interests : Electronics, imaging, hardware
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Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Oct 10, 2001
Amazingly enough youre in, please refare to the famous Post 120 of this conversation
As to Rajiv Sinclair, I'll wait for you to respond to this as you seem to be a "one timer"... and also you didn't answer my question.
Dancer (keep a smile on your face)
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Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat Posted Oct 11, 2001
You've put me up as knowing Gtk+. But all I said was that I was going to look at it!
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Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Oct 11, 2001
Emmm...
I trusted you to be quick
I'll remove for now
Dancer
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dynamex Posted Oct 14, 2001
Hello!
Languages: Pascal, Delphi 2 & 4, Java. Tampered with some C++.
Learning: Assembler, C++.
Technologies: TCP/IP, OOP, WIMP and tile-based games.
Platforms: Windows, MS-DOS, Linux.
Other: HTML, CSS. Made an IRC-client.
Interests: Making nice object hierarchy and planning my code too much.
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Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Oct 17, 2001
SORRY 
Neglected my duties 
Will run and add you instantly 
Dancer
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Researcher 178815 Posted Oct 25, 2001
Me too please?
Right, Languages: Java (script.. not the applet one..YET!) HTML (of course) GuideML (okay now I'm just being stupid ), WML and Basic
How young is CK? just wondering I might beat the record at 15? Anyway Hi
aka
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Researcher 178815 Posted Oct 25, 2001
oops...
okay, let me do that again...
Languages: Javascript, HTML, WML, GuideML (bit obvious really..) Basic...
Learning: Still learning javascript
Technologies: 
Platforms: Windows, umm....
Other:
Interests: Spending hours and hours on something that needs to look good when in the end it's not going to be used by many people and even if, not for long In other words I can be a bit of a perfectionist!
Key: Complain about this post
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- 141: Moonglum Clampflower (MornC), Muse of Ego, Keeper of the Lamp and Guru, (aka Happinose) (Oct 4, 2001)
- 142: Dancer (put your advert here) (Oct 4, 2001)
- 143: Zoing, an italian geek (Oct 4, 2001)
- 144: Dancer (put your advert here) (Oct 4, 2001)
- 145: Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat (Oct 5, 2001)
- 146: Sinclair (Oct 7, 2001)
- 147: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Oct 7, 2001)
- 148: lw - ck (Oct 7, 2001)
- 149: Dancer (put your advert here) (Oct 7, 2001)
- 150: some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one (Oct 9, 2001)
- 151: Dancer (put your advert here) (Oct 9, 2001)
- 152: Potholer (Oct 10, 2001)
- 153: Dancer (put your advert here) (Oct 10, 2001)
- 154: Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat (Oct 11, 2001)
- 155: Dancer (put your advert here) (Oct 11, 2001)
- 156: dynamex (Oct 14, 2001)
- 157: Dancer (put your advert here) (Oct 17, 2001)
- 158: Dancer (put your advert here) (Oct 17, 2001)
- 159: Researcher 178815 (Oct 25, 2001)
- 160: Researcher 178815 (Oct 25, 2001)
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